"Calibration Battle?" Topic
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robert piepenbrink  | 14 Aug 2025 4:52 p.m. PST |
OK, you've got an idea for a set of WWII rules--or maybe something's arrived in the mail--and you want to check it against a historical WWII battle, making sure historical outcomes are at least possible, and that the historical battles you want to fight are playable under these rules on your table. Your rules are either stand=company or stand=battalion, so your battle will be no smaller than a brigade, and no larger than a corps on either side.
1. What's your battle? Not a one-sided alaughter, and well-enough documented that you can do historical OOB for both sides.
2. Where do you find more? For the 18th Century, I can flip through volumes of histories with scaled maps of engagements. If I know my ground scale and table size, I know what's possible. There are mostly pamphlets which do ancients and medievals, up through about the ECW. Is there a WWII equivalent I'm missing? Or is there still an actual gap in wargaming WWII? Thanks. |
| Martin Rapier | 14 Aug 2025 11:27 p.m. PST |
I have a few brigade to corps sized engagements I regularly use for this sort of thing. Maltot in Normandy, Operation Battleaxe, Agira in Sicily, the XXX Corps breakout from "Joe's Bridge", Ponyri Station, the Twin Villages in the Bulge. Some I designed myself, mostly they are culled from the piles of scenario books I've accumulated over the decades, tweaked according to which ever history book I read about them last. |
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